KPFA/Ann Garrison: For the past 12 years, expert UN investigators have reported that the armies of U.S. backed Ugandan General Yoweri Museveni and Rwandan General Paul Kagame have invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo, overthrown two successive Congolese presidents, committed mass atrocities, and been the principle aggressors in a conflict that has caused the death of over 6 million Congolese people and Rwandan refugees, many of whom have died of starvation, disease, or other hardship in Congo’s internally displaced persons, or IDP camps, or, in refugee camps across its borders. The latest UN report included 48 pages of photographic and other documentary evidence that General Kagame’s army is behind the M23 militia which in April, began the war in eastern Congo again, and has thus far caused nearly half a million more Congolese people to flee their homes. Nevertheless, Secretary Clinton warned Africans to beware nations that support dictatorial African regimes and simply wanted to exploit African resources, by which she obviously meant China.

And, met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni about “stepping up the hunt for minor East African warlord Joseph Kony.”

But there’s a level of hypocrisy in what Secretary Clinton says. It is not the Chinese government that has trained the armies of Rwanda or Uganda. It is not the Chinese government that has trained the militias that have caused the massive destruction and millions of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These are U.S. allies, trained by the United States, supplied, equipped, and sustained by the United States of America.

KPFA: Ghanaian American scholar and advocate Nii Akuettah, of the Trans Africa Forum and the African Great Lakes Advocates Coailition said that Secretary Clinton’s remarks would be hilarious if the situation were not so serious.

Nii Akuetteh: I thought if the issue wasn’t so serious, it would actually be hilarious. Because, I mean she was in Senegal and she talked about how Africans should embrace democracy. She didn’t mention China by name, but everybody was clear that she had China in mind, and then she flies to meet with Yoweri Museveni.

KPFA: That was Milton Allimadi and Nii Akuettah on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Africa. For Pacifica, KPFA, and AfrobeatRadio, I’m Ann Garrison.